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n THE MORXIIS'G OREGOXIA-N, THURSDAY. APRIL 3, 1913. CLUB FROLIC REAL SWIRL OF HILARITY "Hungry Gulch Saloon" Scene of Rollicking, Riotous and Realistic Revel. FRONTIER DAYS OUTDONE Characters ot JUntory and Fiction Jostle-, Scrap and Shoot in Joy on Confnkn at Commercial Club- '49 Entertainment. w:ider and more weird than the most . uri( frontier scenes of the mining day of '4 waa the scene In the "Huo ry Gulch Saloon." at the Commercial Jlub laat night, where the membera or the club were entertained at the first frolic prepared for them by tne enter ' talnmvnt committee. Working; with thnrourhneas and haate the committee transformed the , great dlninc-room and when the frollo began at $ o'clock, the cluomemDera . entered tta doors to find themselves In a replica of the typical saloon, gam bling and dance hall of the frontier rtaya. and were precipitated Into a whirl of events characteristic of the scenea of tboee times. It took lesa than a minute for the -atmosphere" of the place to "catch. - on" witn the gueata and in a moment everTona had plunged Into the whirl. acting a part with a reallatn that at ' limes waa decidedly thrilling-. Edgar B. Piper, president of the club, from an Impromptu platform In the center of the room, began a short ad dress, by way ot opening the entertain-; . mint formally. Pleaty of Action FToma First. "Gentlemen. If there be any here - present he began. ; With an earsplitting screech the hand organ at the entrance of one of the . rideahowa launched Into a butchery of soma ancient melody. It took some ' momenta for the committee to silence the uproar. "Gentlemen' With a wild yell Fred Irkley. F. A. Freeman and l. N. .Mossessohn tan gled" on the floor In a fight over i rooked poker game In which they had become involved In the Interim. The t-omrnlttee plunged Into the mix-up and amid a fusillade of revolver shots orought back again a semblance of order. -Gentlemen, thla la the first " The orchestra burst Into full tune and J. A. Currry raised a stentorian bid for everybody to come and try their lurk at the -wheel of 'fortune. "1 perceive that there are no gentle men here." ahouted the president atep- plng down from his place with a grin of surrender and aignalling through the uproar for the "bis; enow" to begin. -Go ahead and enjoy yourselves." Gasara True te Detail. Wide open ran all the games. Harry McAllister. In most, villainous disguise, with A. V. Clark sitting as lookout armed with a bowle and "gat." soon gathered a crowd about his faro table. K. W. Vogler and Captain Gray In an other part of the saloon cleaned the cowboys and miners out of stack after stark of chips, and J. A. Currey at his wheel of fortune, with R. G. Grace as "c apper," reaped a rich harvest of poker chips. The chips were aold at the Wells-Far-go office which was fitted up In the southeast corner of the saloon, and a vhip was good anywhere In the build ing to buy a drink or buck a game. At an old piano, which waa sent up !' Hy Ktlera. battered and worn as tf It had brn dragged around the world. Hilly Carkeek. a tramp pianist, swayed ii ml pounded out rollicking tunes of pnst years. Oeorge and H. G. furies, Tony Zilra and A. W. Ledbury, were the orchestra, roughly dressed and wearing red bandannas about their necks, characteristic figures of the days of and "tearing off the old mining camp tunes with a swlna that aet feet patting all over the building. Over the heads of the orchestra hung a sign "Don't shoot the muslk they're doln their best." Parvrtae la Spraaa. Tom Word sprung a surprise on everybody even the committee by in vading the hall when the fun was at Its height followed by a ecore of hla deputies, all In frontier disguise, and proceeded to arrest W. c. North, the "regular" eberiff of Hungry Gulch, Kevolrera leapt from their holsters and there waa a murk of powder arnoke In the room In a moment. A desperate fight raged about the faro table when Word urged hla depu ties against It. and tables and boxes craunched and smashed In a most realistic manner. George L. Baker. In the character of "dangerous Dan McGrew,' bellowed and lunged Ilka a bullock, smashing screens and overturning the tablea and samples of the mining promoters as he wrestled under a burden of half a doaen deputy sheriffs. "Gee. Td give a good deal If I only had more wind." snorted Baker aa he sat up handcuffed after the pyramid of deputise had untangled Itself -from on top of him. l-'esaale characters Xmt Xecleeted. Soon ti Sheriff had half the Com merctaj Club In handcuffs. Then the whole line of prisoners was marched to the bar to partake of the "nose paint of "Pie-eye" Dean Vincent's peerless thirst emporium. Stanley Clemence, Miles Standlsh. O. K. Jeffery, Joe Templeton and aome of the pages of the Commercial Club were garbed in the costume of such char acters as "Faro Nell" and other famous frontier damsels of history and fiction ef the mining daya. A. C. Black, chronically 'pinched' by North, was never able to be at hla waahhooee near the sideshow, but ran about In hla Intervals of freedom, smoking mimic "bop" and explaining to all shii would listen, the woes that beset the poor heathen Chinee. Bar K.leetrteally t kargrsl. The sideshow where the "bearded lady" waa exhibited a as a rank April fool, and everybody "bit" and then brought their frlen.la te bite in turn. The bar of the Hungry Gulch Saloon was charged with electricity, so that 'nobody could pick up change from It and the slot machine afforded an elec tric" ahock that would aend the man mho tried it howling "murder." By the bar was a table displaying an array of cheese, sausages, aweet meata. sandwiches and everything else that could tempt the palate. The i-rowd went for it ravenously and then spent several minutea spluttering and howling for water, for the mildest thing In that whole array waa aoap and red pepper. Colonel Voting, of the Twenty-first Infantry, from Vancouver Barracks, wss welcomed to the feta by being ar rested by Sheriff North ami sentenced to buy a drirk for the "Sheriff, after having been formally Introduced from ti n platform to the cheerlnir assembly. II. U. Idloiuan. shifty-eyed and wear ing a stiletto in his sash, slouched about the hall in character of a thor oughly disreputable Mexican. J. Fred Larson waa master of cere monies, in a distinguished sombrero, yellow beard and moustache and high- topped yellow boots, and W . J. Hot' mann. "the pride of the Hungry Gulch Saloon." flashed meteorically through the hall, wearing a "diamond" on his shirt front which was larger than walnut- J. Wood Smith looked, like an enormoua bear. The Ad Club Quartet, acts from the Multnomah Hotel and the theaters were offered. C. F. Berg gave a "dago" impersonation and George Baker pre sented the story of "Dan McGrew." Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Clark ataged an Indian war dance. The following telegram waa received from C. C. Chapman at Walla Walla: "Keenly regret impossibility to be present at your splendid entertainment tonight. Rousing meeting here com mittee raised 10.000 of $15,000 Com mercial Club development fund today." PMI1ENT IS CLOSED METHODIST SESSIONS II EKE ARE SUCCESSFUL. SHERIFF 2 Railway ATTACHES ! TRAINS Passenger, Freight and Yard . Equipment Seized by Offi cials at Colfax. SCHEDULES ARE BROKEN UP Plea Made for Support of Churches, Universities antl Foreign . Missionaries. The parliament of the Methodist Epis copal Church came to a close Tuesday night after a convention of three days In the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Third and Taylor streets. Dr. Benjamin Tounp. pastor of the church, said that he considered the meeting a grand sue ces. and Judging by tne overcrowding aiiritences which invariably greeted the sneakers, the object of arousing new interest In the various branches of the work of the Methodist churches was obtained. A resolution committee, composed of Rev. C. McCulloch. pastor of Clinton Kellr Methodist Episcopal Church, chairman: T. B. Ford and D. H. Leech, waa appointed to draft resolutions thanking the railroads for courtesies; the press. Dr. Benjamin l oung, mem bers of the First M. K. Church, varloua speakers. Bishop K. J. Cooke, and re gretting the absence of Kev. C. M. Boswcll and Rev. Clarence True Wilson. Resolutions were also adopted ap proving the work of the various branches of the Methodist Church body and indorsing the parliamentary sys tem, and thanking Rev. Henry J. Coker. D. D for making it possible to have the distinguished members of the church present. The feature of last night's meeting was an address by Bishop W. O. Shep ard. Bishop Shepard gave a number of illustrations of the achievements of certain men and women, and told how Huch Lvnn. of Des Moines. Ia- a phy- siclun and missionary, had converted 2000 Hindus in a place where it was almost Impossible for a white man to live. He said that missionaries in for elsn lands were like those In home lands the former crossed the seas and the latter the mountains and deserts. He gave examples of science and re ligion, where one did not oppose the other, and said that higher criticism was for theorists and not for practical men the kind who build churches. He urged more money for churches,, for Willamette University at Salem and for the University of Puget Sound, and plead for a deeper Intrrest In the work accomplished by these universities, so that it would be easier to raise money for them. Dr. F. M. North, of New York, who preceded Bishop Shepard, took "The Need of a Great Advance In a foreign Field" for his topic, pointing to the war with Turkey as a Christian attack upon Mohammedaniam. The devotional period was led by Dr. Young, and Bishop Cooke conducted the consecra tion service. Blsliop Cooke presided at the after noon session and Blsliop Shepard at the morning session. Early in the morning there was a special session of tnsti tutes, led by Rev. F. B. Fisher, Mrs. A. N. Fisher and the district superin tendents. In the closing remarks before ad journment. Bishop Cooke outlined the itinerary of the parliamentary body. which goes to Tacoma today, and then outlined his own schedule, which In cludes a trip East, to the Indian reser vations at Klamath Falls and North Yakima and Alaska, ending In July. He urged the district superintendents of conferences to work Industriously for the good of the church and Its cause, Property of Inland Empire System and O.-W. R. & X. In 'Washington Taken When Whitman County Taxes Become Delinquent. COLFAX. Wash.. April 2. (Special.) The local yards of the Inland Electric and O.-W. R. Si N. Railroads were par tlallv taken in possession today by Sheriff William Cole, of Whitman County, for the failure by the two roads to pay the personal tax assessed against them. The time limit for the payment of personal taxes In . the county was reached last night and today Sheriff Coie and his deputies took charge of a passenger train, a freight train and a power car In the Inland yards and an ensrliie and caboose, in the yards of the O.-W. R. A N. Company. A deputy was stationed in possession of each part of the equipment taken. The passenger train taken belonged to the Inland Company and was due to leave Colfax at 3 o'clock, but was pre vented from doing so by Deputy Sheriff Baker, who was stationed on it After, the train had been held until 40 minutes after the time It was due to leave the passengers on the train became raatless and threatened to leave the train. Agent Eldrldge, of the In land Company, evidently became wor ried by the persistency with which the deputy sheriff held the train and re. sorted to a cleverly acted scheme to get out of the Colfax yards. Aocordlng to the deputy. Agent Eldrldge assured him that the matter had Just been set tled and that the taxes had been paid. Believing; that the matter was ended tne deputy lert the train and started to the Courthouse. As the officer waa leaving the train started to leave the yards. The train was gone before It could be stopped and It proceeded on Its way to Spokane. Tonight the Sheriff is holding the remainder ot the equipment taken. Officials and attorneys or the Inland Empire system look upon the matter aa a huge Joke. Although they have tendered a check ot about 123,000. which they say is a Just amount of taxes for both real and peraonal prop erty, the Whitman County authorities ask for about 140,000. The matter Is now pending In the Supreme Court and B. H. Kizer, of Spokane, immediately telephoned to Attorney-General Tan te.-, of Olytnpia, concerning the matter, who. It is un derstood, in turn not'fied the Prosecut ing Attorney to call off the Sheriff, but the latter declined to call off -1 forces and Attorney W. J. Matthews was immediately rushed from Spokane to Colfax with Injunction papers to re strain Sheriff Colo from further inter ference pending the settlement of the suit now in Court. Officials of the O.-W. R. 4 ft. an nounced that the matter had ' een re ferred to J. W. Morrow, of Portland, right ot way and tax agent, and the legal department in Portland to be settled. Persona! property tax can be col- ftnill -Gil VI El TuiSte Away IF 175 Choice Suit Patterns Are Still on My Tables I am still giving suits away free. 175 choice suit patterns are still on my tables, and the distribution will continue for the bal ance of the week, if they are not all gone before Saturday night, April 5. Up to last night I have distributed 80 suits, leaving 120 patterns. I have added 55 suits from my regular Spring stock. Many of them standard blue serges and cheviots. My price for making and trimming the suit is 20, including lining and trimming I desire to apologize to my many friends and patrons who had to wait to be measured, and wish to state that I have greatly enlarged my selling force, as well as my cutting and fitting staff, and all will be prompth- served, and no more waiting. All garments made in Portland by skilled union tailors, and will have the label of quality in each garment the Journeymen Tailors' Union of America. Come in and see the "store beau tiful," 382 .Washington, the largest and most perfectly equipped tailoring establishment in Portland. OPEN EVENINGS DURING WEEK 382 Washington One Door From West Park Street Opposite Pittock Block lected 30 days after the first Monday in February. Vancouver Sends Cash. VANCOUVER. Wash.. April 2. (Spe cial.) Vancouver's contribution to the Middle West flood sufferers will be approximately 1000 In cash and prob ably several carloads of potatoes, fruit, and other supplies, which can be sent free of cost to any point needed. An order for $382 was telegraphed East Saturday and yesterday William Paul and S. P. Gaither collected $300 from the saloonkeepers and this also has been sent. . Others have contrib uted since and more will be sent in a few days. TETRAZZINI SAYS: "The Autoplano Is a blessing to humanity. It should be In every home, for It brings with it the cul ture and refinement which only the compositions of the great masters afford. I find I can play the great operas with the same feeling and expression "with which I sing them. I love to play itit is wonderful there is no player piano to equal It. MARY GARDEN SAYS: PARDON OF LITTLE AVAIL George Hampton, With Aliases, Re arrested on Chicago Warrant, George Hampton, alias Thaddeus E. York, alias Frank B. Houston, received I a state pardon yesterday, only to be I escorted to Chicago In charge of George I W. Wilson, sergeant of detectives of I Chicago, representing the District At torney of Cook County, where he will answer charges of forgery and getting I money under false pretenses. Hampton has a cork leg. and in order I to make his escape more difficult. Ser- I aeant WUson baa removed that member I and will at leaat return with part of his prisoner should Hampton manage J to get away. They left on a train last night On February 5. 1910. Hampton la 1 alleged to have obtained 1900 on a cer tificate of deposit forged on Cashier F. I C Ball, of the First National Bank ot I Lexington. Ky, and calling for 1U5. His victim wss Perclval Steele, an at torney of Chicago, who acted aa his I counsellor. Later Hampton, it Is said, had him self elected president of a large hotel I company at Klamath Kails and tried to I float 16000 worth of false bonds fori which he waa sentenced to the Oregon I penitentiary on an indeterminate aen- I tence of from two to ro years. He was offered a Federal pardon but refuaed-j It. knowing that be would nave to facet a charge at Chicago. The slate pardon I waa accepted and he was surprised I nth- his arrest by Detective Wilson, I who arrived here several days ago fori that purpose. SUFFRAGETTE MAY ENTER Window Smashing Held Not to In tolve Moral Tnpitude. BOSTON. April i. Miss Florence! Ward, a militant British suffragette. ill not be barred from this country because she smashed a tew windows In London. Secretarv Wilson ao ruled yesterday! and Alias Ward was set free last night. I She has been detained since last Fri-1 day. following action by a board of! Inquiry which had ordered her de-1 ported because of her militant activi ties, for which, miss ara aamitteai she had served three months In Jail. It was held by the local Immigra tion officials that her window smash ing Involved "moral turpitude." while Miss ward and her supporters declared It waa only a political offense- Miss Ward boarded a train to Visit a sick friend, the object, she said, of I ber visit to this country. "I was much pleased to IiBten to your rendition of the Autopiano, which Is the height of Ingenuity when it comes to playing the piano by means of a music roll. Your Instrument follows thoroughly the inter pretation of the performers, giving a dlfmified read ing of the classics. By your eystem for accenting the melody one is led to imagine hearing the velvety touch of a Paderewskl. and seems to live and breathe These words of the great prima donnas should be read care fully by every thoughtful person. The time has long since gone by when you could be indifferent to the importance of music in your life or in the lives of those who are dependent on you.. The Autopiano is now quite generally recognized as the most useful, most practical agency for teaching good music to the masses of the people. Thousands and thousands who never before realized what musical appreciation meant are now becoming familiar with its beauty and its great good by the use of the Autopiano. . . - Every U. S. battleship of the Pacific squadron is now equipped with from one to three Autopianos no other is now used. When it is considered that the men-of-war now go to every port of the world through every degree of climate and humidity that is a test for reliability and durability that should satisfy every buyer. The Thirtieth U. S. Infantry, that last June embarked for Alaska, took with them 20 Autopianos. Letters from officers indicate these Autopianos have withstood the severity of the climate admirably. Is further assurance needed? If so, we will mail you on application a list of nearly 4000 owners of Autopianos on the Pacific Coast, all sold by the Eilers 40 stores, and all of these Autopiano owners will add their words uf praise to those of Tetrazzini and Mary Garden and the other greatest of artists. t The Autopiano costs practically no more than an ordinary piano of high grade. Payments of a few dollars each month pay for it. The genuine Autopiano is sold only by The Eilers Music House 40 Stores Eilers BIdg. 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